Are Dark Elves in Warhammer evil?

Dark Elves tends to be the evil counterpart to the High Elves, often fielding similar units.
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Are Dark Elves good or evil?

Their skin was obsidian black, earning them the alternate name of dark elves, and marking them as the evil counterpart to the good and heroic lighter-skinned elves of the surface."
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Are black elves evil?

The Dark Elves (or Maltayathors in the elven tongue: Maltaya=Dark thors=elves) are an ancient, evil race. They are considered evil by most other races.
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What happened to Dark Elves in Warhammer?

Now, short lore: Original dark elves are gone, destroyed together with the World that Was. Basically, the only survivors are Morathi (now ascended as the goddess Morathi-Khaine) and Malekith (now ascended as the god Malerion). Morathi has her own playable faction of khainite cultists, daughters of Khaine.
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Are Dark Elves evil in Lord of the Rings?

These elves are different from the Moriondor in history, who were twisted and tainted by the evil or Morgoth, as introduced by Adar in the recent Rings of Power series. The dark elves were elves who did terrible things of their own volition, and the most famous example is Eol.
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Who defeated the Dark Elves?

Malekith appears in Thor: The Dark World, portrayed by Christopher Eccleston. Millennia prior, this version led the Dark Elves in a war against the Asgardians using the Aether, but were defeated and presumed dead following a final battle against King Bor, who sealed the Aether.
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Are the light or dark elves bad God of War?

The Dark Elves are antagonists in God of War (2018) and God of War: Ragnarok.
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Why are the Dark Elves evil in Warhammer?

Cruel, sadistic elves descended from exiles that left Ulthuan in the wake of a civil war. Their leader Malekith is actually the original leader of the losing faction and has kept himself alive for thousands of years through diabolical methods.
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What God do Dark Elves worship Warhammer?

The Dark Elves revel in the worship of the Cytharai. The most powerful religious cult in their land of Naggaroth is the Cult of Khaine. Many also pray to Ereth Khial, the goddess of the Underworld, to take their souls in the afterlife -- seeing eternal servitude as better than oblivion at the hands of Slaanesh.
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Why do the Dark Elves wear masks?

Their masks maintain their life force, shielding them from the poisonous effects of the universe. Their masks also show evidence of enlarged eyes, possibly adapted for seeing in the darkness.
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What is the evilest Elf?

Feanor and his sons all did evil deeds, some more eagerly than others. There's Saeros, the elf who harassed and ambushed Turin in Doriath. Not just Eol but his son, Maeglin. Maeglin was actually much worse than Eol, for he betrayed the location of Gondolin to Morgoth.
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Do dark elves like humans?

The dark elves have always viewed humans as primative, even as they are impressed by the speed that they can recover and regrow. To them, however, this trait just makes hunting them more fun, as they it just means there are more prey to hunt.
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Why are dark elves white?

Dark elves are mostly descended from elves of Nagarythe so naturaly have paler skin and dark hair after centuries of cross breeding.
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What is the difference between drow and dark elves?

Dark elves were elves known as Ssri-tel-quessir in the elven tongue, and the ancestors of the drow. The two terms were oftentimes used interchangeably, even by elves (Tel-quessir) themselves. Dark elves had dark brown skin, as opposed to the ebony skin that drow had, and pale hair.
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Are dark elves immortal?

Powers and Abilities

Some Dark Elves, like Malekith, can use fairy magic do shapeshift, teleport, project energy blasts, and so on. Dark Elves are also immortal, which means they live indefinitely but they can be killed by physical injury.
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How did dark elves become dark?

It's complicated and involves High Elven history. They're that way because of the Sword of Khaine, the Curse of Khaine, Morathi, Aenarion, Slaanesh and the Chaos incursions. Daemons killed Aenarion's wife during the second Chaos incursion of his time, an endless horde of doom that was winning against the Elves.
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Does Malekith hate chaos?

If I understand the lore correctly, Malekith disapproves of Chaos worship and pleasure cults and such. Officially, the dark elves persecute those who engage in their worship and those activities.
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Are Druchii evil?

The Druchii are raiders, slavers and heartless reavers of the highest degree. Their every whim being nothing more than to sow misery and pain to all that oppose them, for misery and pain is the very lifeblood of their existence.
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What do dark elves eat Warhammer?

Compared to most other races, the dark elven menu is rather spartan: meat, water and soul essence; though Sybarites often get their hands on fancier food by infiltrating foreign markets.
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Do Dark Elves hate orcs?

How do dark elves feel about orcs? Drow, as a general rule, hate anyone not Drow. They find all other races to be beneath them. If they run into orcs, they may try to use them to further their aims, kill them, or enslave them to use them in as part of their racial fodder for their armies.
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What do Dark Eldar think of chaos?

Eldar as a whole shy away from Chaos since Slaanesh constantly hunts them thru her minions and occasional direct action. Even if one of them chose to foolishly embrace Chaos, they could never truly serve any of the powers because their souls are already Slaanesh's property from birth.
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Why do dwarves hate elves Warhammer fantasy?

Using an example from Warhammer Fantasy, the reason why dwarfs hate elves (and vice versa, but way lesser degree) is because of the War of the Beard, a long and cruel war between dwarfs and High Elfs that was being manipulated and manufactured by a third party.
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Were the Dark Elves the good guys God of War?

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By the time Kratos and Atreus arrived at Alfheim, the Dark Elves were in the winning side of the war, but after the traveling Gods defeated them to take a portion of The Light, the Light Elves once again became the rulers of The Light.
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What is a dark elf's weakness?

Dark elves are inherently magical beings. From birth, without being taught, they can use rudimentary magic. In time, as they grow and develop, they become masters of elemental magic, at least of ice, wind, and sometimes earth, but their weakness is fire, and no dark elf body can withstand the heat of fire spells.
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Who do the Dark Elves worship Warhammer?

According to older canon, Khaine was the only Elven god worshipped by the Dark Elves. However, more recent canon in the 7th and 8th Editions of Warhammer Fantasy Battle indicates that the Dark Elves also worship some of the other gods of the Elven Pantheon, primarily the Cytharai.
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